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Overview

Xeni Dassiou is a Reader in Economics in the Department of Economics at City, University of London She is the director of the Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy (CCRP) and the programme director of the MSc in Economic Regulation and Competition.

Academic and professional experience

More than 20 years’ experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, executive seminars and short time courses in microeconomics, industrial economics, mathematical economics, competition, regulation. Expert in communicating highly complex economic concepts and issues to all types of audience. She has excellent quantitative skills (a first degree in Statistics) and strong analytical skills in microeconomic theory and competition analysis. Specialised knowledge of the theoretical and applied economic foundations behind privatisation, competition and antitrust policy, market investigations and merger analysis, behavioural economics, competition and regulation in public service markets.

Academic research work

Research on the impact of failed mergers on the returns of bidding and target companies in the UK, the role of herding in determining managerial and investment behaviour, the economic theory of bundling as an instrument of price discrimination both on a mathematical platform as well as on the economic policy related implications of bundling in government procurement and financial regulation. More recently research work has involved modelling the formation and updating of trust perceptions in infrastructure contracts, signaling theory and language formation, while policy related work has focused on public service markets economics, oversight and regulation.

Qualifications

Research on the impact of failed mergers on the returns of bidding and target companies in the UK, the role of herding in determining managerial and investment behaviour, the economic theory of bundling as an instrument of price discrimination both on a mathematical platform as well as on the economic policy related implications of bundling in government procurement and financial regulation. More recently research work has involved modelling the formation and updating of trust perceptions in infrastructure contracts, signaling theory and language formation, while policy related work has focused on public service markets economics, oversight and regulation.

Dassiou, X. and Glycopantis, D. (2005). E-Commerce and the Role of Price Discrimination Using Transactions Bundling.ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF PROFESSOR STYLIANOS Α. SARANTIDES (pp. 843–870). Greece: University of Piraeus.

Dassiou, X., Asteriou, D. and Glycopantis, D. FDI and Growth: Evidence from a Panel of European Transition Countries.Essays in honour of Professor Yannacopoulos (pp. 173–192). 2009: University of Piraeus.

Stern, J. and Dassiou, X. (2010). The water industry, competition and climate change. Papers from the Water Sessions of the CCRP Research Workshop, Aston University, July 2009.Utilities Policy, 18(3), pp. 113–115. doi:10.1016/j.jup.2010.08.001.

Dassiou, X. and Glycopantis, D. (2006). The economic theory of price discrimination via transactions bundling: An assessment of the policy implications.Review of Law and Economics, 2(2). doi:10.2202/1555-5879.1041.

Public service markets: Competition Priorities, Oversight and Regulation, 19th Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, City University London, January 2015The British Utility Regulation Model: Beyond Competition and Incentive Regulation? Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) with Institute of Economic Affairs and Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, London School of Economics, March 2014Competition and Deregulation Boundaries: Concurrency and its Future, 17th Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, City University London, January 2014Competition Authority Market Inquires and their Future, 15th Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, City University London, January 2013The UK Competition Regime Institutional Reforms, 13th Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, City University London, January 2012

Canvis en les polítiques comercials per la caiguda de la lliura al Regne Unit. TV3 Catalan Television, Spain Changes in groceries' prices as a result of the decline in the pound in the UK http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/programa/canvis-en-les-politiques-comercials-per-la-caiguda-de-la-lliura-al-regne-unit/video/5633570/

Public service markets: Competition Priorities, Oversight and Regulation, 19th Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, City University London, January 2015

The British Utility Regulation Model: Beyond Competition and Incentive Regulation? Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) with Institute of Economic Affairs and Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, London School of Economics, March 2014

Competition and Deregulation Boundaries: Concurrency and its Future, 17th Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, City University London, January 2014

Competition Authority Market Inquires and their Future, 15th Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, City University London, January 2013

The UK Competition Regime Institutional Reforms, 13th Centre for Competition and Regulatory Policy, City University London, January 2012

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